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SIMONA FRILLICI
BRIEFLY MY STORY:
Education: After Classical High School I attended the Academy of Fine Arts of Perugia where I graduated in Painting in 1988 under the guidance of the artist Nuvolo and with a final thesis in Art History with Bruno Corà.
The title of the thesis: From the Informal (in particular Fautrier and Dubuffet) to Gallizio up to Beuys on the line of matter (feminine principle) concentrates in a few lines all my artistic research that began in those years and continued until today.
In 1988 I was chosen to represent the Chair of Painting at the Art Expo in Bari, Italy.
Mute objects, 1998
1998. "Via Bonazzi 5" her first personal show; she realized the installation Muti Objects in a disused shop in the historic center of Perugia. She wanted to involve the casual passer-by in a disturbing perception of the store, usually a commercial space, in this case the installation completely occupied the interior of the store, the shelves and windows outside.
A fixed video camera, located above the shop door, recorded what was happening on the street.
The artist seeks an exchange of visions, between the street passerby, who looks inside the store and at the same time he is "watched" by a hidden camera.
A fixed video camera, located above the shop door, recorded what was happening on the street.
The artist seeks an exchange of visions, between the street passerby, who looks inside the store and at the same time he is "watched" by a hidden camera.
Rose garden, 1998
tecnica mista cm230x190
Her first personal show Via Bonazzi 5; she realized the installation Muti Objects in a disused shop in the historic center of Perugia. She wanted to involve the casual passer-by in a disturbing perception of the store, usually a commercial space, in this case the installation completely occupied the interior of the store, the shelves and windows outside.
A fixed video camera, located above the shop door, recorded what was happening on the street.
The artist seeks an exchange of visions, between the street passerby, who looks inside the store and at the same time he is "watched" by a hidden camera.
A fixed video camera, located above the shop door, recorded what was happening on the street.
The artist seeks an exchange of visions, between the street passerby, who looks inside the store and at the same time he is "watched" by a hidden camera.
The She-wolf, 2000
mixed media cm215x160
2000.
"Golfo Prize, European Biennial of Artivisive" La Spezia; curated by Bruno Corà; catalog "Profiles of young contemporary painting in Europe", Silvana Publisher, Cinisello Balsamo 2000
"Golfo Prize, European Biennial of Artivisive" La Spezia; curated by Bruno Corà; catalog "Profiles of young contemporary painting in Europe", Silvana Publisher, Cinisello Balsamo 2000
Woman looking out of the window, 2001
2001
• "Extravergine" Trevi Flash Art Museum, Trevi (Pg); curated by Italo Tomassoni
• "Numero Zero" Artivisive Association Trebisonda, Perugia; curated by Aldo Iori
• "Extravergine" Trevi Flash Art Museum, Trevi (Pg); curated by Italo Tomassoni
• "Numero Zero" Artivisive Association Trebisonda, Perugia; curated by Aldo Iori
Angels, print on canvas, cm200x300, 2002
2002 "Angelinconvento" Convent S. Francis, Arrone (Tn). Exhibition organized by the Museum of the Angels of Segovia, by Lucia Bosè.
Looking in childhood memories, adults told: every child who dies is an angel in heaven. This is the first time Frillici uses photos od dead children.
Looking in childhood memories, adults told: every child who dies is an angel in heaven. This is the first time Frillici uses photos od dead children.
Nocera Umbra, 1999
The installation collects fragments, remnants of everyday life that was tragically interrupted by the earthquake on a night in September 1997. The objects collected in the center of Nocera Umbra after the earthquake, are kept enclosed in painted wooden boxes closed by sandblasted glass.
2003, "Linea Umbra-01. Osservatorio Giovani" Trevi Flash Art Museum, Trevi (Pg); curated by Mara Predicatori and Maurizio Coccia; catalog "Linea Umbra_01 Osservatorio Giovani" Giancarlo Politi Publisher
2003, "Linea Umbra-01. Osservatorio Giovani" Trevi Flash Art Museum, Trevi (Pg); curated by Mara Predicatori and Maurizio Coccia; catalog "Linea Umbra_01 Osservatorio Giovani" Giancarlo Politi Publisher
The Games of Beslan, site specific installation, 2004
room-sized installation, made with 85 used toys (dolls and soft toys), inspired by the news story that took place in Beslan in Ossetia in September of the same year, during which hundreds of children lost their lives in a school occupied by Chechen soldiers.
2004. "The games of Beslan" Buonumori Boutique, Perugia
2004. "The games of Beslan" Buonumori Boutique, Perugia
Aarhus – Daybreak – 4th September 2003, 2003 site specific installation, Sento Studio, Viborg (DK)
2003
"Aarhus – Daybreak – 4th September 2003" Senko Studio, Viborg DK; catalog with text by Mara Predicatori
"Aarhus – Daybreak – 4th September 2003" Senko Studio, Viborg DK; catalog with text by Mara Predicatori
Angels, mt15x30, print on flags, 2004 (detail in the photo)
2004 "Signs in the city" San Domenico square, Foligno (Pg), with Bruno Corà and Italo Tomassoni.
Printed on the flags are photos of dead children's faces, titled: Angels
Printed on the flags are photos of dead children's faces, titled: Angels
Lead Baby Clothes, 2004
print on flag, 2nd prize, Museum of Contemporary Art Aperto, Barge (CN)
2003
"Aarhus – Daybreak – 4th September 2003" Senko Studio, Viborg DK; catalog with text by Mara Predicatori
"Aarhus – Daybreak – 4th September 2003" Senko Studio, Viborg DK; catalog with text by Mara Predicatori
Close my eyes, site specific installation, mixed media, 2006
2006 "Close my eyes" Wooster Arts Space, New York, USA
Site-specific installation inspired by the photos of the faces found on local crimenews
Site-specific installation inspired by the photos of the faces found on local crimenews
August 5 2006- Madonna of the Veil, 2006
2006 "August 5, 2006 - Madonna of the Veil" Cultural Association Wunderkammern, Spello (Pg); curated by Mara Predicatori; catalog Wunderkammern 2007, 2006, Cultural Association Wunderkammern, Spello 2007 Text by Mara Predicatori
The installation was inspired by a news that she read in the local newspaper: a child died of an electrocution on 6 August 2006. The night before she had received the vision of Our Lady of the Veil or Madonna Morena. The child's father subsequently discovers that Madonna Morena is celebrated in South America on that day: August 5th. On the same date, the artist's mother died.
In the suggestive space of the Wunderkammern Association, a woman white dressed, sitting on a square of white fabric, sat for twenty minutes meditating behind a transparent veil, accompanied by the recorded sound of Tibetan mantras, inducing the audience seated by the other part of the veil to make a dimensional leap from the real to a higher state of consciousness. A work with an image of Madonna of the Veil was exposed and illuminated day and night on the window overlooking the street.
The installation was inspired by a news that she read in the local newspaper: a child died of an electrocution on 6 August 2006. The night before she had received the vision of Our Lady of the Veil or Madonna Morena. The child's father subsequently discovers that Madonna Morena is celebrated in South America on that day: August 5th. On the same date, the artist's mother died.
In the suggestive space of the Wunderkammern Association, a woman white dressed, sitting on a square of white fabric, sat for twenty minutes meditating behind a transparent veil, accompanied by the recorded sound of Tibetan mantras, inducing the audience seated by the other part of the veil to make a dimensional leap from the real to a higher state of consciousness. A work with an image of Madonna of the Veil was exposed and illuminated day and night on the window overlooking the street.
The bed, site specific installation, cm 238x188x400, 2008
2008 "XV Quadriennale di Roma" Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome; curated by Bruno Corà; catalog "XV Quadriennale d'arte di Roma 2008", Marsilio, Venice 2008
2008 "Simona Frillici - installations 2007/1997" Damiani editions, 2008
2008. "Simona Frillici - installations 2007/1997" Damiani editions, 2008
Text by Aldo Iori
Text by Aldo Iori
2008, Cell 1, site specific installation
2008 "Arts in the city" Ex Prison, Perugia.
She occupied an entire arm of the abandoned prison, creating installations in three neighboring cells, mainly using material found on the spot: soaps, broomsticks, chairs. The first installation mainly concerned the sense of smell (the floor covered with used soaps), the second had a predominantly visual character, the third was a sound installation (a recorded and diffused voice)
She occupied an entire arm of the abandoned prison, creating installations in three neighboring cells, mainly using material found on the spot: soaps, broomsticks, chairs. The first installation mainly concerned the sense of smell (the floor covered with used soaps), the second had a predominantly visual character, the third was a sound installation (a recorded and diffused voice)
2008, Cell 2, site specific installation
2008 "Arts in the city", Ex Prison, Perugia.
She occupied an entire arm of the abandoned prison, creating installations in three neighboring cells, mainly using material found on the spot: soaps, broomsticks, chairs. The first installation mainly concerned the sense of smell (the floor covered with used soaps), the second had a predominantly visual character, the third was a sound installation (a recorded and diffused voice)
She occupied an entire arm of the abandoned prison, creating installations in three neighboring cells, mainly using material found on the spot: soaps, broomsticks, chairs. The first installation mainly concerned the sense of smell (the floor covered with used soaps), the second had a predominantly visual character, the third was a sound installation (a recorded and diffused voice)
2008, Cell 3, audio installation
2008 "Arts in the city", Ex Prison, Perugia.
She occupied an entire arm of the abandoned prison, creating installations in three neighboring cells, mainly using material found on the spot: soaps, broomsticks, chairs. The first installation mainly concerned the sense of smell (the floor covered with used soaps), the second had a predominantly visual character, the third was a sound installation (a recorded and diffused voice)
She occupied an entire arm of the abandoned prison, creating installations in three neighboring cells, mainly using material found on the spot: soaps, broomsticks, chairs. The first installation mainly concerned the sense of smell (the floor covered with used soaps), the second had a predominantly visual character, the third was a sound installation (a recorded and diffused voice)
2009. White Angel, mt9x9, site specific installation
2009 "Angels. Jerusalem - Nocera Umbra" Civic Museum of S. Francesco Nocera Umbra (Pg); curated by Mara Predicatori; catalog Mèa ilnostromondoèadesso eGeneration Edition
2009, Red, mixed media
2009, "Osservatorio" Wunderkammern Gallery, Rome (group show)
2011. The Artist's Studio 1
In 2011 she conceived and made three events to bring attention to the artist's study. The studio, usually an intimate and solitary place, is open with actions that involve other artists and ordinary citizens, inviting exchange and sharing
• The Artist’s Studio 1 (Via della Pergola 1b, Perugia, May 2011)
• The Artist’s Studio 2 / Mary Judge (Via della Pergola 1b, Perugia, July 2011)
• The Artist's Studio 3: Permeability and Comradery (Judge Studio, Bushwick New York, September 2011).
• The Artist’s Studio 1 (Via della Pergola 1b, Perugia, May 2011)
• The Artist’s Studio 2 / Mary Judge (Via della Pergola 1b, Perugia, July 2011)
• The Artist's Studio 3: Permeability and Comradery (Judge Studio, Bushwick New York, September 2011).
2011. What is Art? frame by video
2011 "54th Venice Biennale / Italian Pavillon / Umbria Region" at Palazzo Collicola, Spoleto (PG)
What is art?" TufanoStudio25 Gallery, Milano
In this year she made her first video entitled “What is Art?” (26:14); the video was answer to the invitation to participate at the controversial 54th Venice Biennale / Italian Pavillon / Umbria Region at Palazzo Collicola, Spoleto. In the same year the video was exhibited at TufanoStudio25 in Milan. “What is Art?” this question will be a leitmotif of all her work to follow. In today’ world mystification reigns supreme. “What is Art?” is a question that invites us to investigate within ourselves and to try to identify a path.
What is art?" TufanoStudio25 Gallery, Milano
In this year she made her first video entitled “What is Art?” (26:14); the video was answer to the invitation to participate at the controversial 54th Venice Biennale / Italian Pavillon / Umbria Region at Palazzo Collicola, Spoleto. In the same year the video was exhibited at TufanoStudio25 in Milan. “What is Art?” this question will be a leitmotif of all her work to follow. In today’ world mystification reigns supreme. “What is Art?” is a question that invites us to investigate within ourselves and to try to identify a path.
2013. July 30,1945
audio installation
2013 "July 30th 1945" Space Camp Gallery, Indianapolis, USA. Selected in an international open call.
Audio installation inspired by the USS Indianapolis shipwreck during World War II
Audio installation inspired by the USS Indianapolis shipwreck during World War II
2014, Diary of an artist, Kino Cinema , Rome
"Diary of an artist" are six videos (2012/2013); are the final part of a process that I started in 2011, examining the movement of the relation between me and six people / figures of the art system: critic, curator, gallerist, artist . Their names: Bruno Corà, Aldo Iori, Afra Zucchi and Franco Ottavianelli (Wunderkammern Gallery/ Rome), Italo Tomassoni, Gianni Piacentini. Common thread in the choice of six people was the deep knowledge that unites me with every one of them.
The six videos are a single work, vital and mobile, which investigates the people involved, it touches that thin boundary that separates what we think we are (as we see ourselves) from how the Other he sees us. In this case the subject under investigation is the relationship between the artist and those with whom he needs to confront, as they are the link between his inner world and the outside world.
"Diary of an artist" was presented the first time May 7, this year, at the Kino Cinema in Rome. The event was organized by the Galleria Wunderkammern and enriched by a critical essay by Bruno Di Marino.
Performer: Paola Minaccioni. Introduces: Massimo Mattioli.
During the evening I wanted to get out of the projection room, where the six videos have been screened, and I involved the entire space of Kino spreading traces in the form of installations, paintings and performing act.
The six videos are a single work, vital and mobile, which investigates the people involved, it touches that thin boundary that separates what we think we are (as we see ourselves) from how the Other he sees us. In this case the subject under investigation is the relationship between the artist and those with whom he needs to confront, as they are the link between his inner world and the outside world.
"Diary of an artist" was presented the first time May 7, this year, at the Kino Cinema in Rome. The event was organized by the Galleria Wunderkammern and enriched by a critical essay by Bruno Di Marino.
Performer: Paola Minaccioni. Introduces: Massimo Mattioli.
During the evening I wanted to get out of the projection room, where the six videos have been screened, and I involved the entire space of Kino spreading traces in the form of installations, paintings and performing act.
2014, Diary of an artist, Kino Cinema , Rome
"Diary of an artist" are six videos (2012/2013); are the final part of a process that I started in 2011, examining the movement of the relation between me and six people / figures of the art system: critic, curator, gallerist, artist . Their names: Bruno Corà, Aldo Iori, Afra Zucchi and Franco Ottavianelli (Wunderkammern Gallery/ Rome), Italo Tomassoni, Gianni Piacentini. Common thread in the choice of six people was the deep knowledge that unites me with every one of them.
The six videos are a single work, vital and mobile, which investigates the people involved, it touches that thin boundary that separates what we think we are (as we see ourselves) from how the Other he sees us. In this case the subject under investigation is the relationship between the artist and those with whom he needs to confront, as they are the link between his inner world and the outside world.
"Diary of an artist" was presented the first time May 7, this year, at the Kino Cinema in Rome. The event was organized by the Galleria Wunderkammern and enriched by a critical essay by Bruno Di Marino. Performer: Paola Minaccioni. Introduces: Massimo Mattioli
During the evening I wanted to get out of the projection room, where the six videos have been screened, and I involved the entire space of Kino spreading traces in the form of installations, paintings and performing act.
The six videos are a single work, vital and mobile, which investigates the people involved, it touches that thin boundary that separates what we think we are (as we see ourselves) from how the Other he sees us. In this case the subject under investigation is the relationship between the artist and those with whom he needs to confront, as they are the link between his inner world and the outside world.
"Diary of an artist" was presented the first time May 7, this year, at the Kino Cinema in Rome. The event was organized by the Galleria Wunderkammern and enriched by a critical essay by Bruno Di Marino. Performer: Paola Minaccioni. Introduces: Massimo Mattioli
During the evening I wanted to get out of the projection room, where the six videos have been screened, and I involved the entire space of Kino spreading traces in the form of installations, paintings and performing act.
2014, Diary of an artist, six videos made between October 2012 and November 2013
2014
Festival Apertamentearte, Pescina AQ
"Diary of an artist" projection of six videos and "The Shark" site specific installation
Festival Apertamentearte, Pescina AQ
"Diary of an artist" projection of six videos and "The Shark" site specific installation
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